David Axelrod Quotes

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• I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we…
• If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level…
• I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate…
• Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United…
• I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind…
• We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.
• We are a unified party.
• I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.
• Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something…
• But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're…
• I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is…
• No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No…
• Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if…
• People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.
• The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about…
• The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run…
• This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace.
• We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona.…
• We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle…
• We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

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